Proto-North Caucasian: *hĭmV (~ʡ-,-ä̆-)
Meaning: wart, abscess
Notes: Reconstructed for the PEC level. Correspondences are regular. It is interesting to note that both in Chech. and in Inkh. the word (Chech. huma, Inkh. himon) also means "thing". In Chech. this is probably just a case of homonymy (huma 'thing' < PN *fu-ma is actually derived from an interrogative pronominal stem 'what'). The meaning of the word in Inkhokvari apparently reflects Nakh influence (and may be also affected by the presence of a similar interrogative stem - hi-bo 'which').
